Timeline May 2020

Events in May 2020 6

• 1932 – 2020 Little Richard (1932-2020) Died 9 May 2020, aged 87 Little Richard was an American singer and pianist whose energetic performances and hits like "Tutti Frutti" helped invent rock and roll in the 1950s. He died of bone cancer on 9 May 2020.
• 1935 – 2020 Christo (1935-2020) Died 31 May 2020, aged 84 Christo was a Bulgarian-born artist known, with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, for large-scale environmental installations such as wrapping the Reichstag and the Pont Neuf. He died on 31 May 2020 while working on a planned wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe.
• 1944 – 2020 Roy Horn (1944-2020) Died 8 May 2020, aged 75 Roy Horn was the German-American illusionist and animal trainer of the Las Vegas duo Siegfried & Roy, famous for their shows with white tigers and lions. He died of complications from COVID-19 on 8 May 2020.
• 2020 US bans TSMC from supplying Huawei In May 2020, the US government expands export controls to prohibit TSMC from manufacturing chips for Huawei — China's largest technology company — without a US licence. The ban, effective September 2020, cuts Huawei off from the advanced chips it needs for its smartphones and 5G equipment. Huawei's smartphone market share collapses. The episode demonstrates that TSMC's technology — despite being a Taiwanese company — is effectively under US jurisdiction because it uses American equipment, software and designs. Geopolitics and semiconductors are now inseparable.
• 2020 Star-sized black hole discovered in Milky Way Closest black hole to Earth found Astronomers announced the discovery of a black hole just 1,000 light-years from Earth in May 2020 — the closest known black hole to our solar system, found in the constellation Telescopium.
• 2020 Little Richard dies Tullahoma, Tennessee Dies aged 87.